Nora Kathleen Lacon

A Civilian, Nora died on 13th of January 1942 aged 47. 

Nora was born at Lowestoft on 18 September 1894, a daughter of The Reverend Charles H. and Nora Lacon. Nora was baptised at Saint Guthlac’s Church, Branston, Melton Mowbray, where her father was the Rector, on 11 November 1894. In 1901 her family lived at The Rectory Barton Mills, Suffolk. Later her parents lived at Saint Peter’s Court, Burgess Hill. 

Nora trained to be a pharmacist and became a Member of the Pharmaceutical Society. In 1921 she lodged at 268 High Street, Great Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, and was the dispenser and book-keeper for Doctors Porter and Addinsell at Monks’ House, Berkhampstead. In 1930 Nora lived at 4 Rocky Hill Terrace, rocky Road, Maidstone, Kent. By 1939 Nora was the hospital pharmacist at the Lowestoft and North Suffolk Hospital and she lived at Flat 2, Kingsley, Royal Avenue. Nora was a member of the Women’s Voluntary Service. 

By early 1942 Nora was living at Bow House, 34 Old Nelson Street. She died at Morling’s Music Shop, 106, London Road North, during the Waller Raid.